San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo will seek city funding for 500 summer jobs for youth. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors also voted last month to provide $1 million for summer jobs through the nonprofit Work2Future. Both initiatives aim at the high youth unemployment rate, which exceeds 20 percent in San Jose.

About 100 people gathered at the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center for one of more than 40 run-ups to a national contest in Braille reading and typing. The 27 contestants from Humboldt to Monterey counties tested their skills in a setting where being blind or visually impaired was all the norm.

Arguing that Sacramento has failed to fulfill its fiscal obligations, Napolitano plans to raise tuition 5 percent this fall. Brown has threatened to withhold about $120 million in state funds unless the university keeps tuition and nonresident enrollment flat.

Members of the UC Santa Cruz lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community launched a petition demanding the university enact changes in the wake of an attack on a gay student thought to be a hate crime by police.